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Magnum exhibition has a taste for life

An extrodinary set of photographs will be showcased at Liberty's, with never before displayed photos from the world renowned photo agency Magnum.



Brian Viner: We are all copycat comedians

As soon as a joke is uttered on stage, it becomes public property

The Cramps' frontman dies

Lux Interior, the founding member of cult garage rock band The Cramps, has died.

Back in fashion after 50 years – Marilyn

The Hollywood sex symbol died in 1962 but one label believes she can still tempt teen shoppers

Mister Lonely (15)

Off-the-graph oddity. The least that can be said for Harmony Korine is that his films aren't like many others.

The Apartment

Directed by Billy Wilder

Some Like it Hot

Directed by Billy Wilder

Brian Viner: High price for membership of Celtic soul brotherhood

Tennents Bar on Byres Road in the West End of Glasgow was as good a place as any to watch Celtic v Milan on Tuesday night, or as good a place as any except Parkhead. We stood, 15 or 20 deep, clutching our beers to our chests only because there was no other way of holding them, in as tight a formation as the wooden bricks in a game of Jenga.

Days Out: Woodhorn, Northumberland

The venue

Kylie v Nicola (no contest)

One is a former child star who became a pop diva, the other an entrepreneur. So which is a role model for young businesswomen? By Sophie Goodchild

Shape shifters

The hourglass was bound to run out eventually. The curvy, slim-waisted female figures of the 1950s are no more, according to a survey that has compared the shapes of Britons in the 1950s and 2004. The average figure is straighter, and often tubbier, now.

TV choice: David Thomson's Movie of the week

SOME LIKE IT HOT CHRISTMAS EVE, 6.10PM, BBC2

Words: crinal, adj.

BY THE desk is Eve Arnold's photograph of Marilyn Monroe. She is in a striped swimsuit on the bench of a climbing frame, knees supporting a hefty edition of Joyce's Ulysses. She is at the last pages, which makes one wonder whether she had read it all and what she could learn from Molly Bloom's soliloquy.
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Girls Guides drop religious reference but pledge to self and the Queen

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